ARGH help please

Stokesy

Stokesy

Stokesy

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I’ve just bought some new componants and I’m having some problems getting them to work. Anyway, here’s the story…

My old system was:

Motherboard = Asus A7V8X-X
Graphics card = Radeon 9800SE
RAM = Generic 512 MB DDR PC333
PSU = Tagan TG480-U01 480W ATX2.0
CPU = Athlon 2600+
Soundcard = Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum Pro ZS

I bought :

DFI LanParty UT RDX200CF-DR Crossfire (Socket 939)
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego (Socket 939)
HIS ATI Radeon X1650 Pro ICEQ Turbo 512MB GDDR3
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler

I’m using my old RAM, soundcard and PSU with the new stuff. Everything seemed to go OK when I was installing the new componants. However, when I start the system up the motherboard lights come on and all of the fans start up. However, nothing appears on the monitor and I can hear the fan on the graphics card cycle as it speeds up and slows down. The hard disk chatters but stops after a couple of seconds.

I thought that the PSU might be the problem as the fact that the graphics card fan cycles seems to sggest that it is not receiving enough power however, my dad has measured it with his voltmeter and thinks that it is steady.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.
 
the PSU is more than enough, im running an x1900xt gfx card on less power, so i wouldn't worry about that, it sounds like a hard drive problem to me, try a different HDD?
 
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Have you tried using one ram stick? In a different slot?

I’ve had this issue many a time and swapping the ram about can get it to boot.. also do you have a spare older gfx card of any kinda PCIE of course.. That you can try?

I’ve got an old Geforce 3 for my AGP boards for this purpose and an 7300 for PCIE.. Try these and let us know what goes on.

Not saying its not the HDD but I cant see it being the HDD.. just unplug it and see.

Not always will the mobo beep if its a ram problem.. this is by exp.
 
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Thinking of buying a similar setup, pretty much the same apart from the Graphics Card. After reading up about the "DFI LanParty UT RDX200CF-DR Crossfire (Socket 939)" I believe there too be many problems so it could be a motherboard issue?

As im a novice, I cant really commented on what exactly.
 
well one thing i will say is that motherboard is a pig to get stable from scratch so it could be that, in the corner there are 4 LED diagnostic lights, do they all light up? /some go out/ some flash on and off? ill write how i got my RDX200's working anyways, maybe it will help you:

RDX200 - this mobo is very unstable when it has the initial BIOS it ships with on it, i've made two systems with these now and they never worked properly until i install the newest BIOS, it is available on the DFI website under RDX200 -> BIOS (obviously :p )

According to the website you NEED to do the following steps as some motherboards were not right, straight out of the box;
unplug mains cable
put CMOS to clear for a good 5 mins or so
set back to normal
re-attach mains cable
boot up BIOS (hopefully it will work now)
change settings to defaults
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try that, if its still not stable then you might need to do this as well:

to get them stable enough to get into windows i ALWAYS had to change one of the memory settings; (both systems used samsung TCCD memory)

Idle cycle limit - 256 cycles

it defaults to 16 but changing it to 256 instantly makes the system stable in windows
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once in windows, download the updated BIOS and winflash, then flash the BIOS a couple of times in windows to make sure it flashes well, then reboot and go into BIOS, reset all settings to optimised defaults and finally reboot once more
 
keep posting updates in here, i have had so many troubles with this board, as have many other people here im sure, its got so many things wrong with it from the start, hopefully someone has had whatever problem it is your having

(unless it actually is DOA)

RDX200 sold by ocuk really should come with a warning that its so hard to get setup :rolleyes: although having said that, once you do get it going, like all DFI boards its an absolute beast at overclocking, the last one i did topped out at 370FSB and my memory would run up to 300mhz in it :)
 
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mikeymike said:
RDX200 sold by ocuk really should come with a warning that its so hard to get setup :rolleyes: although having said that, once you do get it going, like all DFI boards its an absolute beast at overclocking, the last one i did topped out at 370FSB and my memory would run up to 300mhz in it :)
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Aye, If I purchase one I'll be sure to get someone else to fit it
:D
 
I've only got one RAM stick and I've tried it in every slot and I've tried booting up using multiple hard disks. Unfortunately I don't have another PCIE graphics card to try.

The red LED on the right hand side keeps blinking on and off. Once my Dad has finished his dinner we'll try your suggestion mikeymike.

Thanks for the help guys. :)
 
there are 4 LEDs, if 3 are lit and the 4th one keeps blinking on and off, this usually implies (i think) that the BIOS is failing to start, so hopefully clearing the CMOs for 5-10mins should fix this :)
 
I've tried cleering the CMOS and that hasn't helped :mad: The right hand side LED is still blinking on and of, I can't seem to find anything about this in the manual.

I'm going to send Overclockers an email and see if there tech support can solve the problem. I'll post back if/when I get fixed.
 
It wont boot with DDR333, put some 400 in, lower the divider and them put your 333 back in

I had this problem
 
http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20832

best way setting up any dfi board.
these boards r overclocking boards, not the usaul install out of box ( if u lucky) M/b. They need more power, fussy with certain ram, psu ect. go thru the build in link, just maybe u have missed something :) G/l

Ps! simple things u have checked i hope, all 4 connectors fitted ? use 1 stick of ram in the orange slot. diff psu ect
 
I'm at my whits end here :(

DFI's tech support reckoned that either my Tagen wasn't supplying enough juice or the unbranded memory couldn't cope. I've tried using OCZ (which they recommended) DDR400 and I'm still having the same problem.

What are the chances that the CPU or graphics card are faulty?

Can anyone recommend a mobo that is easy to get running.
 
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